Join Our Civilian Team

External Postings

The Ottawa Police Service offers a wide variety of interesting and challenging civilian career opportunities along with competitive salaries and benefit packages. With over 500 civilian employees, there are a number of civilian positions necessary to keep the service working round the clock. We hire for permanent, temporary and casual positions.

If you are seeking a civilian position other than those listed in the job inventory sections, continue to check the website for opportunities that are open to the public.

To maintain our tradition of excellence, we strive to ensure our organization is representative of the diversity of our community - the Ottawa Police Service is an equal opportunity employer that aims to reflect the diversity and linguistic composition of the community we serve.

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Internal Postings

Ottawa Police Civilian Employees can access internal competitions on this web site. Any competitions listed under the internal postings are not open to the public. Should there not be qualified internal applicants the position will then be posted under current external postings. As per the provisions of the Civilian Collective Agreement, all internal candidates will be considered prior to any external recruitment. External applicants who submit their resume for an internal posting will not be accepted.

Submissions by OPS Employees will be accepted by Human Resources:
  • in person at 19 Fairmont Ave,
  • by internal mail – Attention Staffing Coordinator - Human Resources Fairmont Ave
  • electronically, at staffing@ottawapolice.ca subject line Attention Staffing Coordinator- Competition #

The competition file # must be included on your letter of interest or resume.

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